Open Design Italia 2010

On November 19th Scicche took part at the first edition of Open Design Italia (www.opendesignitalia.net) at the Foro Boario in Modena. The Open Design Italia answers to a constantly increasing demand of self-production design products. We are talking of a design that gives to designers the possibility to express themselves from the very moment of the intuition untill the realization and all the way to commercialization of the created objects. In this way the designer has the complete control of the production and it also boosts local small production realities in order to show their talents.

This event was characterised by the presence of 51 designers, the majority of them coming from Italy, but also coming from other countries, who had the possibility , some of them for the first time, to present small series production. One of the main feature of the project is the importance that is it given to the research of materials that can help the object to be functional, but at the same time original. The 51 designers who showed their producuts have been selected by a committee composed by the organizers of the project, after they registered in the competition through the application form. During the three days of exhibition (19-20-21 November) an European jury will select the three winning projects and will assign five special jury awards.

Events like this one are the ones that Scicche likes the most. We look and take part in fairs, events and traide fairs that give us the possibility to get in touch with young designers that exploit these events to confront themselves with other designers and with small Italian cities realities.